Name: to construe a frankenlang: workshop with Winston Lê
Start: 2025-10-04T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-04T13:00:00-07:00
Location: Enabling Arts

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to construe a frankenlang
A neologism is a new word or expression or a new meaning for an existing word. Through this “coinage” we’ll explore versatility and dynamic innovation of language-making.
In this workshop we will explore how semiotics (sign-making interpretation) morphology (texture sound shape) and re-materiality (physical body/vessel to embody the neologism) can reshape enhance and expand our lexical innovation onto our babbling world. This will be a workshop on innovative linguistic processes that will lead to the creation of a poem based on the participants’ newly-created word.
This class will be both lecture and workshop-based. We will begin by discussing the varying definitions and elements that make up a neologism as well as how one might experiment with the concept further... Through three linked generative writing exercises we will explore an “exquisite corpse” approach in writing a poem based on a neologism and by doing so destabilize and decolonize the nature of the poem and language itself.
Participants receive 15% off Winston's editorial services for writers.
Winston Lê is a Vietnamese diaspora poet interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker who resides on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish Peoples. His writing has been featured in The End Zine filling Station ROOted Rhythms Composed: anthology of poetry 2024 Poetry Pause periodicities Sparkling Tongue Press Ekphrasis Magazine and pagefiftyone. He is the author of three poetry chapbooks translanguaging hybrid utterance Thhhhh. His debut chapbook translanguaging was shortlisted for the 2018 Broken Pencil Zine Awards. Winston also has worked on various interdisciplinary collaborations with other artists including multi-instrumentalist composer Cameron Catalano botanical artist Katrina Vera Wong and choreographer Rob Kitsos. In April Lê was the poet-in-residence at Greywood Arts an artist residency located in Cork Ireland.